Security & Privacy
Assistant Professor Ronghui Gu's blockchain security firm CertiK is considered a unicorn company.
Yung is recognized for contributions to cryptography and its applications in information technology systems.
Papers from CS researchers have been accepted to the 47th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P 2026), a leading conference in computer security and privacy.
About
The security group works on a diverse set of security and privacy issues arising across the software/hardware stack.
The key research goal of the group is to design, develop, and deploy principled solutions for improving the security and privacy aspects of computer systems.
The group has a broad set of expertise ranging from systems security to designing privacy policies. It is a highly collaborative group and most of their students are co-advised by multiple faculty members.
Intrusion Detection Systems